Hump goose
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.jpg) Pair of white humpback geese |
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| origin | Asia |
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| Ring size | 24 mm |
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The humpback goose is a breed of goose that goes back to the domestication of the swan goose ( Anser cygnoid ) in Northeast Asia. It was introduced to Europe from China or Japan in the 19th century.
features
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Mute geese have a frontal hump on their upper beak similar to that of a mute swan , which is more pronounced in males than in females and, especially in old ganters, can grow to such an extent that it almost looks like a small horn. In the wild form, this hump is only weak and pronounced in the male sex.
The hump goose has a swan-like, curved, long neck and an upright posture. The gray color of the humped goose is colored like its trunk form, the swan goose, and has a straight line of eels . In addition to the gray, there is also a white color. In contrast to white domestic geese, its representatives are real Leucists .
The humped goose is significantly heavier than the wild swan goose, weighing up to 5 kg in the male and 4 kg in the female sex. Their meat is tender and not very fat. With 40 to 60 eggs a year, she has a remarkable laying performance for geese.
The humpback goose has limited flight capabilities and a trumpet-like voice.
More hump geese and hybrids
From the originally bred humpback goose, various variants or breeds developed over time:
- the African humpback goose , which is also recognized in Germany and Europe and
- the Russian kholmogory goose. A heavy, gray and white piebald goose with a huge dewlap.
Mute geese can also easily be crossed with domestic geese , which are descended from the gray geese . The Steinbach fighting goose and probably also the Emden goose and the Toulouse goose go back to such a crossing .
- Mute geese
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literature
- Martin Platzbecker: Water fowl: geese and ducks (= the big poultry standard in color . Band 3 ). 3rd, supplemented edition. Oertel and Spörer, Reutlingen 2005, ISBN 3-88627-529-9 , hump geese, p. 51-53 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mute Goose . Entry in the poultry lexicon of the poultry newspaper . Hobby and small animal breeder Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, Berlin
- ↑ Breed tables of large and water fowl. (PDF) In: www.bdrg.de. Bund Deutscher Rassegeflügelzüchter eV (BDRG), accessed on January 9, 2012 (2.7 MB).
- ↑ bump geese (PDF; 22 kB), www.entente-ee.com
- ↑ a b c Martin Platzbecker: Water fowl: geese and ducks (= the great poultry standard in color . Volume 3 ). 3rd, supplemented edition. Oertel and Spörer, Reutlingen 2005, ISBN 3-88627-529-9 , hump geese, p. 51-53 .
- ↑ The humped goose - the scabbard makes the difference. In: Goose.org. Retrieved February 15, 2015 .